Business Development Manager 87 views0 applications

The Organisation

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls.

We believe in the power and potential of every child. But this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it’s girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children.

We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood. And we enable children to prepare for – and respond to – crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge. We have been building powerful partnerships for children for over 80 years, and are now active in more than 70 countries.

The Opportunity:

Working in 50 developing countries across Africa, Asia and the Americas, we strive for a just world that advances children’s right and equality for girls. Over the coming years we will take action together so that 100 million girls learn, lead, decide and thrive.  South Sudan Country Office seek to increase its annual budget to not less than Euros 30 Million to enable us reach more than 400,000 vulnerable and excluded children, particularly girls every year; with high quality gender transformative programs and influencing work that deliver long lasting benefits around the four outcome areas of Learn, Lead, Decide and Thrive. In order to realize our ambition, we will focus our intervention in areas of global distinctiveness, work through partners and enhance capabilities for resource mobilization and management, execution of program and influencing, as well as capability to adequate monitor, report and communicate on result we seek to achieve.

The Business Development Manager is responsible for identifying funding opportunities aligned to program and influencing strategic priorities, coordination of writing and submission of winning funding proposal, formation of strategic partnership for fund raising and submission of competitive bid and strengthening systems and processes for effective grant management, management of relationship with National Offices (N.Os) and donors (DIFID, USAID, ECHO) and coordination of donors’ report writing to ensure timely submission of highly quality report. You will support the achievement of country fundraising targets and learning regarding the funding portfolio, while assisting the Country Office in South Sudan to develop a strong professional image among donors so that additional grant funding is acquired to grow and support Plan’s program in South Sudan.  This will be achieved through:

1. Actively seeking and maximizing opportunities for additional funding from a variety of sources;
2. Strengthening the capacity of the in-country BDU and other relevant departments in acquire and implement increased sustainable grant funding.

Key Deliverables will include:

• Fundraising/resource mobilization – Plan South Sudan maintains a portfolio of medium and large grants and has a strong pipeline of grants needed to maintain strategic grant expenditure targets.
• NO/donor/Peer relations – Plan South Sudan has excellent working relationship with all NOs and in country partners and donors
• Reporting and Grant Management: Ensure that Plan South Sudan is submitting accurate and high quality donor reports in a timely manner and senior managers have the information needed to track progress against grant implementation targets.
• Team management – Develop and lead a high performing team that has the capacity independently track funding opportunities, develop high quality proposals and provide technical support to programme teams on grant/donor management.
• Quality design – Ensure that funding proposals are reflect high quality and participatory programme design elements that contribute to achieving Plan’s Global Strategy, focus on gender equality/girls rights and are linked to the appropriate AOGD and M&E framework

The Individual:

With significant experience in the areas of proposal development, grants management, resource mobilisation, and/or donor contract management you will have excellent knowledge and understanding of international donor interests, priorities and requirements and proven successes in business development and proposal writing.

A strong leader you will have experience of capacity building and prior experience in the design, delivery, or management of programmes – preferably gender transformative in nature – in ECCD, education, child and youth agency, youth economic empowerment, child protection, inclusion, humanitarian response, water and sanitation, hygiene, disaster risk management and resilience; in Nepal or in a country with similar context

Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and the ability to analyse and synthesise complex issues will be essential as will strong networking, influencing and negotiation skills.

Please follow the below link for a full job description and person specification:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/tnud1mrw5zw05g6/Business%20Development%20Manager%20S.%20Sudan%20job%20profile.docx?dl=0